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Russian module suddenly fires thrusters after docking with space station:
Flight controllers at NASA and Roscosmos averted a disaster on Thursday after a large Russian module docked with the International Space Station and began to "inadvertently" fire its thrusters.
The Russian "Nauka" module linked to the space station at 8:30 am CT (13:30 UTC), local time in Houston, where NASA's Mission Control is based. After that, Russian cosmonauts aboard the station began preparing to open the hatches leading to Nauka, but at 11:34 am Houston time, Nauka unexpectedly started to fire its movement thrusters.
Within minutes, the space station began to lose attitude control. This was a problem for several reasons. First of all, the station requires a certain attitude to maintain signal with geostationary satellites and talk to Mission Control on the ground. Also, solar arrays are positioned to collect power based upon this predetermined attitude.
Another concern is G forces on the station's structure. The various components of the extensive space station were assembled in microgravity and designed to operate at zero-G. So even small stresses on the vehicle can induce small cracks or other problems with the station's structure.
For all of these reasons, space station flight controllers in Houston and Moscow acted quickly after the station started to drift. Attitude control was fully lost at 11:42 am, and engines on the space station's service module were fired. This was followed by a handover to the Russian Progress vehicle attached to the station, which began to fire its thrusters. This tug-of-war offset the Nauka module thruster activity, which eventually stopped after fuel supplies were exhausted. By 12:29 pm on Thursday, attitude control was restored. It made for quite an hour on the ground and in space.
[...] By late Thursday afternoon, when NASA officials held a teleconference to brief reporters, the situation appeared to be well in hand.
Previously:
Russia's MLM Nauka Makes Triumphant Docking to ISS.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 30 2021, @07:50PM (8 children)
...or China (who actually uses genocide, slavery and murders "prisoners" for the human organ trade).
Keep your blinders on nice and tight, you super-special, kind, progressive dip5h1+!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 30 2021, @07:53PM (7 children)
^Meant for the Monkey of Death
(Score: 3, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Friday July 30 2021, @08:04PM (6 children)
I don't defend China.
But if I did, I would come up with something better than "whatabout Russia."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 30 2021, @08:13PM (2 children)
And I don't defend the monkey people.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 30 2021, @11:15PM
Journey west, young monkey?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @04:43AM
Think we should tell em they are monkey people? NM who wants to clean up that mess...
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 30 2021, @10:17PM (2 children)
And I wasn't defending Russia.
Just pointing out the irony of your own knee-jerk reaction which was to point your finger back at Russia, Russia, Russia!.
Must suck to automatically believe everything the MSM dumps in what's left of your head. There's a reason we call your type "NPCs".
(Score: 2, Funny) by Tork on Saturday July 31 2021, @01:49AM (1 child)
Heh. It's amazing how many people unironically say virtually the same thing you are, acronyms and all... almost like they're all hearing it from the same place.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday July 31 2021, @06:00PM